Thursday, June 21, 2012

Can You Forgive Her - by Anthony Trollope

US/UK Kindle Classic

"Can You Forgive Her" is
an 1864 novel by British writer Anthony Trollope. This is the first novel in the Palliser
Series, known as Trollope's
"political series." Trollope
was and is a popular novelist. He is by
no means forgotten. Typically there are
4 or 5 volumes in a series and they are all self-contained. This is, of course, the first in the
series. (US
Edition) (£1.29UK Edition)

Searching AmazonUS for a free version of this book took
three tries before the free version was listed.
I don't know why that would be, but doing this blog has taught me that
the free version rarely pops up first if someone has loaded a version for sale.

I really like Trollope.
The individual novels are not long, but the series is a satisfying
length. Many of his works have been
adapted for movies or television. The
Pallisers had a particularly successful television adaption by British author,
Simon Raven.

Let's take a look.

I cannot say that the house in Queen Anne Street was a
pleasant house. I am now speaking of the material house, made up of the walls
and furniture, and not of any pleasantness or unpleasantness supplied by the
inmates. It was a small house on the south side of the street, squeezed in
between two large mansions which seemed to crush it, and by which its fair
proportion of doorstep and area was in truth curtailed. The stairs were narrow;
the dining-room was dark, and possessed none of those appearances of plenteous
hospitality which a dining-room should have. But all this would have been as
nothing if the drawing-room had been pretty as it is the bounden duty of all
drawing-rooms to be. But Alice Vavasor's drawing-room was not pretty.

So you see the novel is concerned with the mundane as well
as Parliament. Of course that is not the
only House in this novel.

Trollope writes about people and if you understand people,
your work is never out of date.

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I am a Hoosier who spent many years in Chicago and am now in San Antonio. My passion is reuniting lost dogs with their families. I am the Director of the Facebook page, Lost Dogs of Texas and a co-founder of "Lost Dog Awareness Day."

I am not new to reuniting families. After Katrina, I helped people in evacuee shelters in San Antonio to track their missing family members. After that work ended, I started a volunteer group that reunited over 1500 Katrina animals with their families by deciphering information online and tracing evacuees.

I am writing a book about two stolen Yorkies who were found after an amazing eighteeen month search. It is tentatively titled "Finding Baxter and Cooper: A Woman, a Private Investigator and their Successful Search for Two Stolen Dogs."